Politics For Dummies by Ann M. DeLaney

Author:Ann M. DeLaney
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119653004
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

Don’t Let Either Side Manipulate You

When you’re analyzing political advertisements, you should be on the lookout for certain red flags. A candidate who makes a blatant appeal to voters on a highly emotional issue is trying to manipulate you. The candidate is hoping that your emotional reaction will trigger a response in their favor without additional analysis.

Beware of straw men or appeals to emotion

A manipulative candidate has no interest in telling you why they want your vote. They don’t want to discuss controversial solutions to complex problems. They're not interested in discussing the important issues in the campaign; they're looking for a diversion like raising a straw man. Raising a straw man would be attributing to a candidate a position that the candidate has never held when that position is so divorced from reality as to be ludicrous. For example, claiming that all Democratic candidates favor open borders or all Republican candidates support white supremacists because one left- or right-wing candidate of a party has done so.

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